Deb! Just want to let you know my company has set up a relief fund where they will match our contributions dollar for dollar. So, my donation is being doubled. Whee!
Simon: Captain... why did you come back for us? Mal: You're on my crew. Simon: Yeah, but you don't even like me. Why'd you come back? Mal: You're on my crew. Why we still talking about this?
'Safe'
The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
SailAweigh - Sep 08, 2005 7:57:41 am PDT #3887 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
deborah grabien - Sep 08, 2005 7:58:30 am PDT #3888 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Oh, excellent! And I'll have espresso cookies here for you at the end of the month.
SailAweigh - Sep 08, 2005 8:06:04 am PDT #3889 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I'll have espresso cookies here for you at the end of the month.
You do realize you're encouraging me to drool on my keyboard and it's got enough crap on it already, don't you?
deborah grabien - Sep 08, 2005 8:11:58 am PDT #3890 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Nah, just something to look forward to....
Connie Neil - Sep 08, 2005 8:36:38 am PDT #3891 of 10001
brillig
[link] Picture Number Nine drabble
Detective Sullivan studied the picture they'd pulled from Ginelli's pocket as the mobster had cooled and stiffened on the sidewalk. Ginelli and a kid, both dressed fancy, like respectable people. The kid watched Ginelli, maybe thinking "I'm going to be just like him."
Sullivan told himself it was just a neighborhood kid, a "hero"-worshiping nobody. In his gut, though, he knew that somewhere a kid was about to find out that his father was dead, that he'd fallen to the cops. Somewhere a kid would look at his weeping mother, would look for his father's weapons, would join his father's cronies, and keep the whole sick wheel turning.
deborah grabien - Sep 08, 2005 8:55:15 am PDT #3892 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Connie, I love that last paragraph.
Connie Neil - Sep 08, 2005 9:03:06 am PDT #3893 of 10001
brillig
I've got another gangster drabble percolating. It's good to feel the writing loosen up again.
What's the difference between a mobster and a gangster?
erikaj - Sep 08, 2005 9:10:23 am PDT #3894 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Not all gangsters are mobsters. Mostly, now, it seems to break down ethnically with mobsters being more likely to be the old-school neighborhood Italian, Jewish, and Irish wiseguys. Gangsters can be black and Hispanic... Maybe actually it's an organization thing...gangsters not being able to trace back to the Five Families and such. Dude, I'm "Rain Man" with brass knuckles and a bag of chronic.
Connie Neil - Sep 08, 2005 9:14:31 am PDT #3895 of 10001
brillig
Dude, I'm "Rain Man" with brass knuckles and a bag of chronic.
You are a font of arcane and specialized knowledge. People get paid for that sort of thing.
erikaj - Sep 08, 2005 9:31:29 am PDT #3896 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Except for...I'm not sure that I'm right.(There goes that job at FEMA. Dag.) But I think you can't be a mobster without being able to trace your bona fides. And you're only mob-connected till you take the oath and get "made", which some close mob associates never can because they're not fully Sicilian.